Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychologist
Location: Birmingham
Age Group: Young people aged 11-17 and their families
Pay: £23 - £35.36 PAYE per hour (dependent on experience)
Role Overview:
We are seeking an experienced, enthusiastic, and motivated Psychologist to join our client's NHS team. The ideal candidate will promote a recovery service and provide excellent evidence-based psychological input to multidisciplinary mental health services for young people aged 11-17 and their families.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention for young people and their families/carers.
* Contribute to ward rounds, formulation, care planning, CPAs, and MDT assessments.
* Offer supervision, consultation, training, psychological debriefs, and staff support to colleagues within an inpatient setting.
* Provide services to our General Adolescent Unit and Specialist Eating Disorders Units.
* Work collaboratively with a full team including psychologists, family therapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, nurses, and medics.
* Operate in a clinically demanding and fascinating environment.
Candidate Requirements:
* Experience working clinically in CAMHS.
* Skills and interest in working with complexity and co-morbidity including neurodiversity, suicidality, trauma, psychosis, and eating disorders.
* Work autonomously and as an integral part of integrated biopsychosocial multidisciplinary teams within professional guidelines and the overall framework of policies and procedures.
* Creative, innovative, high-performing individual able to make safe and confident decisions around patient care.
* Strong partnership skills with patients, their families, colleagues in the multidisciplinary team, and community agencies.
Join Us:
If you are a passionate psychologist looking to make a difference in the lives of young people and their families, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to be part of a dynamic and supportive team.